I enjoy carrying a paper diary and using it along with a fountain pen to take notes and remembrances. Looking back through them is much more valuable than looking back through any sort of digital calendar or journal, while being much less expensive and prone to disintegration.
Gardening and the simple joy of starting seedlings and watching them grow into fruitful plants is another life-improver enhanced by the most minimal of tech (although choosing seeds online and their low cost delivery to my home is probably mediated by some considerable tech nowadays).
I vouched for your comment since it seems to have been downvoted into oblivion. I don't understand why people took offense with what you had to say. paper diaries are a lot more valuable and require totally different parts of the brain than idiotic cloud enabled note-taking apps.
thanks that explains it. fwiw I don't think it's OK to punish them because they've been naughty in the past. there are a lot of depressed and ill people here too. Remember the templeOS guy who was constantly ousted from HN for his remarks? After he killed himself the HN crowd was all "what a sad story". you don't know what people go through on the other end of the wire. people do deserve a chance I think and downvoting stuff that is OK is like saying "f you there is no way in hell we're going to put up with you even if you try".
In point of fact, there was nothing at all "naughty" about their comment in the first place. It was just a comment. A comment that the Nazi mods of this place, in their Naziism, didn't like.
For the record, this is my second ever account on HN. The first account was a few months ago. It was shadowbanned within 15 posts. Simply for expressing my opinion.
This is a longstanding problem in audio engineering, along the lines of "how does one un-bake a cake to get the eggs?" There's always going to be artefacts and distortion ranging from unpleasant to extreme, hence audio engineers when mixing from stems/channels will do a stereo instrumental mix and a mix with vocals.
I thought this straight away. It made me think that the brain's structure has evolved in resonance with the fundamental dimensionality of the universe.
"my wife and I think it's totally fine that I lost ten billion dollars" - said nobody's wife ever.
I don't even a stake in bitcoin but this guy makes me angry every time he comes up. Such an obvious fraudster, shamelessly taking credit for someone else's work and invention.
If I had to bet, I'd put my money on the real Satoshi being a state actor or group of programmers working in some baroque part of the banking industry. Hell, after reading cryptonomicon I'd even put my money on it being Neal Stephenson before I'd believe it was Craig Wright.
In the very early days of Bitcoin I mined ten or so and then lost the wallet when I, foolishly, wiped the PC it was on to sell. I'm still kicking myself about that. I can't imagine how much more foolish I'd feel if I'd lost $10 billion in a similar way.
I had ~22 BTC stolen from my MtGox account in the very early days. I didn't have 2FA enabled - I don't think they even supported it yet - and my password was a combination of dictionary words. It wasn't entirely trivial at the time, but it was on the order of a couple hundred bucks. I chalked it up as a cheap lesson learned on the value of good passwords and moved on with life.
I had the banhammer wielded on me for a similar reason, and now understand HN is an irony free zone moderated by snowflakes. I expected so much better after being here for years.
I'm sorry to disappoint you, but it's not hard to get unbanned if you want to use the site as intended. You just need to email hn@ycombinator.com and say so in a good-faith way.
Thanks for the information. Next time I want someone to split with my kit, I'll definitely check out your service. One thing - how do you keep a straight face when using bone-headed marketese like "voluntary parting" when writing your T&C's and communicating with the customers who fall for it?
Personal attacks are not ok on HN. New users with expertise or knowledge about a topic are welcome here. If existing users harass them and hound them away, does that benefit this community? No it does not.
This comment was so far beyond the pale (plus you posted so many unsubstantive comments elsewhere today) that we've banned this account. If you don't want to be banned, we'll happily reinstate you; just email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future.
Alas, the community regularly upvotes snark, rage, and indignation. HN can't live by upvotes alone. The guidelines are there to correct what the voting system can't.
> bone-headed marketese like "voluntary parting"
I suspect this is a legal term that is the key to absolving them of any liability in situations like this. In the article it was echoed by the equipment owner's insurance company when they denied the claim.
Gardening and the simple joy of starting seedlings and watching them grow into fruitful plants is another life-improver enhanced by the most minimal of tech (although choosing seeds online and their low cost delivery to my home is probably mediated by some considerable tech nowadays).